My interest has been in replacing changing my Nagios notifications from SMS messages to
something free--all it takes is a major problem to start racking up a number of SMS
charges. And unlike SMSes, you can tell Prowl to stop bugging you, if it gets that bad.

If you have Prowl, the following curl command will send a free notification
to your iPhone:

It's that easy. Worked on the first try. Still left to consider is it I trust this as
much as I trust AT&T's email-to-SMS gateway service, which has never been an issue for me.

It can also tie into Growl, and given the name I imagine
this was its first intended use, so things happening on your Mac, like bittorrent
downloads completing and adium messages, could also notify your phone.

Visitor comments

On Wed Nov 4th 2009, 11:26am, Bill N posted:

Nice! I've got a similar scenario (home-brew monitoring app) that I'm going
to add this to. I haven't read the api doc yet, but it looks like they cap
you at 1000 per hour (remaining="999"
resetdate="1257365466" in response)....so way more than you'd
ever (hopefully) need.

On Wed Nov 4th 2009, 11:29am, Bill N posted:

Nice! I've got a similar scenario (home-brew monitoring app) that I'm going
to add this to. I haven't read the api doc yet, but it looks like they cap
you at 1000 per hour (remaining="999"
resetdate="1257365466" in response)....so way more than you'd
ever (hopefully) need.

On Fri May 14th 2010, 9:03am, Oscar posted:

This is pretty cool man. I've been meaning to play around with growl and
notifications for all kinds of things now if only the app store had an app
for me to buy more time...

Also, I'm sure you could engineer some way for this to work through prowl
and growl, and have some fail back to fall back into email-to-sms or
something. Maybe using the nagios time thresholds or something.
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